"Exactly a century ago, the Armory Show brought European avant-garde art to New York. We are still experiencing its consequences. Among the works on view was Marcel Duchamp's notorious Nude Descending a Staircase, which a derisive critic wanted to rename 'Explosion in a Shingle Factory.' Both titles come to mind as one reads Chris Hosea's Put Your Hands In, which somehow subsumes derision and erotic energy and comes out on top. Maybe that's because 'poetry is the cruelest month,' as he says, correcting T. S. Eliot. Transfixed in midparoxysm, the poems also remind us of Samuel Beckett's line (in Watt): 'The pain not yet pleasure, the pleasure not yet pain.' One feels plunged in a wave of happening that is about to crest." -- John Ashbery, from his judge's citation for the Walt Whitman Award

Put Your Hands In: Poems (Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets)

Literature & Fiction

Hosea, Chris

Poetry

LSU Press

A FLAVORWIRE BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2016 AN ENTROPY MAGAZINE BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2016 Poetry. DOUBLE ZERO is the inventive new collection by Chris Hosea, the poet chosen by John Ashbery for the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Drawing on popular song, contemporary multimedia art, and personal experience, DOUBLE ZERO presents tuneful, densely meaningful lyrics. Like collaged sheet music, these poems offer a wealth of opportunities for creative interpretation and performance. "[Hosea] somehow subsumes derision and erotic energy and comes out on top... One feels plunged in a wave of happening that is about to crest."--John Ashbery "Exemplary... Vibrant, quick witted... He inculcates the restless quotidian in a swirl of modal energy run-on manic constructs... I felt the restless, surreal pulse of this new poet."--Anne Waldman "By turns melancholy, fragmented, and true to feeling, Chris Hosea's DOUBLE ZERO accurately maps the experience of the contemporary subject. A book-length artist statement via linguistic selfies, these are disjunctive yet salient texts draped across a through line of language passionately tuned to life's fearful moments and occasional clarities."--Ben Fama "An inventive approach to language that is as relentlessly provocative as it is approachable."--Publisher s Weekly

Double Zero

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Put Your Hands In: Poems (Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets)

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